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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How do you receive the information from spirit? This has been a recurring question over the
years from those who have had private readings or watched mediumship being
demonstrated on a public platform (whether the medium was myself or somebody
else). It’s a question which I – being
the left-brained analytical kind of guy – have given a lot of examination
to. This post isn’t going to answer with
the standard “It’s in the ‘clairs’ – clairvoyance, clairaudience,
clairsentience” – though those do play a part.
My goal has always been to understand it from a larger perspective, to
which the “clairs” then break it down.
As with anything, this is an ongoing process, a continuous journey, and
no doubt perceptions will change as new information is brought to light. Here’s what I have learned so far. Though this may sound simple (which it is),
there’s still a lot to it.

Intuition is the process for which
messages come into the context of one’s consciousness. By paying attention to the inner sensations brought
about by intuition, one can become “in tune” with energies and information not
perceived outside in the objective world, nor rationalized by the logical
mind.

Historically, the mind has been where most confusion and
inner struggle has been fought when it comes to spiritual communication. It is a losing battle. On some level, the desire to receive clear
messages from the Other Side speaks to the brain being able to decode the
packets of information sent by those in spirit.
Though this is a true statement, the error is in perceiving the mind as
having the primary functionality within this process. In reality, the mind is not the one in
charge; rather, it is subordinate to the intuitive
self.

Indeed, the mind does unravel the images, sounds, and
feelings which are piped through the intuitive self, but it is not in the focus
of the mind where these ingredients originate.
Intuition goes much further than the brain and encompasses the aura and
subtle bodies – something quite outside the scope of the physical matter lodged
inside our skulls.

When approaching readings, one needs to “get out of the
head” for it is “in the head” where he or she most likely spends the bulk of
one’s time navigating the jungles of time and space in the here and now objective
world. Thus, normal everyday “in the
head” focus must, to a certain degree, be abandoned in order to “tune in” to
other energies. The shift is to move out
of reliance on the brain and onto the reliance of the intuitive self.

Intuition requires an entirely different set of faculties to
be engaged than simply thinking and wandering around inside the mind. Intuition connects you with the environment; it
reaches out into the subtle vibrations and energies coursing around and through
you. And when one can focus their
awareness into their intuition, the door to these other realities can be
cracked open and engaged.

“What does my intuition tell me?” is an excellent way to
move your mind out of its role of supremacy and into an act of service. “What does my intuition tell me?” moves your
awareness off your physical senses and onto the many senses inherent within the
complexity of the intuitive self. “What
does my intuition tell me?” drives your observation off the chatter of the
physical mind and into the eternal abode of cosmic consciousness.

It is incredibly difficult to rationalize psychic
occurrences because they originate from intuition – a form of perception and
communication not well understood by anyone in the 21st century. We may discover that we can never pin it down
or understand it from a left-brained perspective, for the simple fact that it
may be inherently much greater than what logic can comprehend. The brain loves to use logic like a
microscope so as to have a better understanding of things – for if we have a
better understanding we can have better odds at controlling whatever it is we are examining. Unfortunately,
intuition may be much larger than what the left-brain can comprehend, thus the
notion of control is too far out of reach.
Nay, it may be completely impossible.

But just because we do not understand it does not mean it
isn’t real or that it doesn’t have value.
What we do know is that information outside the normal channels of
perception happens – this has been documented time and again. We know it’s not coming from the jello inside
our heads, but from sources outside
coming in or by us going outside the body to bring the information back – again,
leaving the physical brain behind. As
psychics and mediums, we recognize intuition as being much larger than our
minds, though we must trust our minds to be able to process it to the best of
our abilities so that our normal consciousness can gain some sort of
comprehension.